GDT: Game 8 - New York Rangers @ New York Islanders - 7:30 EST, TNT

[Leonardo87]

New York Rangers @ New York Islanders
7:30 EST - TNT

**Game is on TNT**

Lou’s Offseason..

We want fish sticks!

Let’s do this!​

Rangers Projected Line up

Chris Kreider -- Mika Zibanejad -- Kaapo Kakko
Artemi Panarin -- Vincent Trocheck -- Alexis Lafreniere
Jimmy Vesey -- Barclay Goodrow -- Vitali Kravtsov
Sammy Blais -- Ryan Carpenter -- Ryan Reaves

Ryan Lindgren -- Adam Fox
K'Andre Miller -- Jacob Trouba
Zac Jones -- Braden Schneider

Jaroslav Halak
Igor Shesterkin


Scratched: Libor Hajek,
Injured: Filip Chytil



Islanders Projected Line up

Josh Bailey -- Mathew Barzal - Oliver Wahlstrom
Anders Lee -- Brock Nelson -- Anthony Beauvillier
Zach Parise -- Jean-Gabriel Pageau -- Kyle Palmieri
Matt Martin -- Casey Cizikas -- Cal Clutterbuck

Adam Pelech -- Ryan Pulock
Alexander Romanov -- Noah Dobson
Sebastian Aho -- Scott Mayfield

Ilya Sorokin
Semyon Varlamov

Scratched: Kieffer Bellows, Ross Johnston, Nikita Soshnikov
Injured: None

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[FultonReed]

let's see if this one looks any different from last night

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Hope Igor got a good nights sleep because he better be in net again tonight.

Or maybe Halak will go into his old building like Geo did and dominate? Nah, that won’t happen.

 

[duhmetreE]

Ok.... if we lose this...

there will be meltdowns

 

[will1066]

Expect big time games from Leo Komarov, Jason "The Choke" Blake and Pat Flatley.

 

[Machinehead]

We play the way we do the last couple of games, we beat this team.

My only gripe is that we need to get the PP going again but all PP's run hot and cold.

 

[Machinehead]

I was gonna go to this game, but man, Rangers/Islanders tickets are ridiculous.

I could if I really wanted to, but I have a limit on live sports being worth it.

 

[LORDE]

If this team thought the def champs were a tough game lol

At least it's on national TV again

 

[duhmetreE]

We play the way we do the last couple of games, we beat this team.

My only gripe is that we need to get the PP going again but all PP's run hot and cold.

It's Zibs not hitting his shots and mostly Kreider problems right now

 

[EdJovanovski]

 

[duhmetreE]

Trocheck and Laffy are really due. Tro hit a few posts. Laffy had a beautiful deflection and backhand chance.

The puck will start going in for that line. It's amazing how Panarin didn't have 2-3pts last night.

Panarin has to start shooting on the PP. or Fox. There needs to be a threat other than Mika to shoot so they can't cheat towards him

 

[romba]

Why can't this be on MSG, we need Sam and Joe to mention 4 or 5 times that THEY'RE NOT MISSING TROTZ AS NO PP GOALS ALLOWED BY THIS EXCELLENT DEFENDING ISLANDERS TEAM

 

[mas0764]

Ok.... if we lose this...

there will be meltdowns

The Islanders tend to have our number a bit too.

 

[duhmetreE]

The Islanders tend to have our number a bit too.

new coach though

 

[GbgRanger]

Oh, team is actually 6th on faceoffs this year. They still pay lackluster from period to period

 

[tomobson]

Kreider is still on the MSG ice trying to get up from getting knocked down by Johnson on the faceoff.

 

[FultonReed]

new coach though

new coach, who was Barry's assistant for 3 seasons in Nashville, and was his assistant when Washington won the cup. we're gonna see most of the same style from them.

 

[Rempe73]

This was more fun when I had low expectations

 

[SnowblindNYR]

We might win this game but it'll be painful to watch. I'm glad I will miss it. I'm sure so is HF.

 

[romba]

Trocheck and Laffy are really due. Tro hit a few posts. Laffy had a beautiful deflection and backhand chance.

The puck will start going in for that line. It's amazing how Panarin didn't have 2-3pts last night.

Panarin has to start shooting on the PP. or Fox. There needs to be a threat other than Mika to shoot so they can't cheat towards him

That line has looked great, only a matter of time before those posts and cross bars are in the back of the net.

Regarding the PP, teams cover the cross ice seam from Panarin to Mika HARD, meaning Fox is the one setting up Mika from the point. Goalies don't have to move nearly as much from that type of set up (high-low vs east-west), giving Mika a much smaller window to fit the puck in. CK needs to set some screens for Panarin to shoot, or move the puck down low behind the net, with quick passes to Trocek for slot one timers (let Panarin or Mika do those passes as CK will end up giving the PK 2 on 1 ones with passes in the skates). This will help open up that cross ice seam for Panarin to hit Mika, or Mika to hit CK.

 

[Fitzy]

This was more fun when I had low expectations

That tends to be the case, yep.

On the bright side, we are learning a lot about this roster's weaknesses.

 

[RangersFan1994]

Halak better be the backup. Igor needs to play tonight

 

[Mandar]

A game time of 7:30 in NY....hey @NYRFANMANI .....what time does the game start in Belmont?

 

[Leonardo87]

A game time of 7:30 in NY....hey @NYRFANMANI .....what time does the game start in Belmont?

It's on TNT so 8:30pm

 

[The S5]

Fully expect whoever is in net for the Isles to put up a Vezina performance. Georgiev has been average, at best, for the Avs, yet plays out of his mind last night. Tarasov was a brick wall against us, yet last night, he was a sieve.

Yes, Kreider was bad last night, but, for the most part, the team played pretty well. Even the Hajek haters didn't have much to whine about.